IIRC, the minimum wage to support an H1B is $65,000/year, or $32.50/hour. The $9/hour figure is referring to works in India. The article has a lot of detail, but kind of jumps somewhat freely from "move design out of Boeing to outside companies" to "outside companies owned by Indian companies" to "Boeing offices in other countries" to "outsourced companies in India." All of those things are disliked by the Boeing engineer unions. There doesn't appear to be any indication that the MCAS problems have anything to do with outsourcing to India, but the current situation does provide a good opportunity for the unions to stir up trouble about outsourcing, and "$9/hour software testers" makes for excellent clickbait in a story. I suppose it is difficult to summarize the need for MCAS into an attention-grabbing headline.

That part is almost as disturbing as all of the rest. Any company that spends money on consultants to implement such terminology with the hope that it will improve anything is suspect in my eyes.